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Fri 10 Oct 2008Pope Benedict defends Pius XII's wartime record on Jews
POPE BENEDICT XVI yesterday issued another vigorous defence of one of his predecessors, Pius XII, saying he hoped Pius would soon be beatified. The pope's remarks came during his homily at a commemorative Mass in the Basilica of St Peter's to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pius.
The pope was speaking just three days after the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Shear-Yushev Cohen, addressed the Vatican's Synod of Bishops saying, in an obvious reference to Pius XII, that Jews cannot "forgive and forget" that during the second World War some major religious leaders did not speak out against the Holocaust.
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